This is an examination of Woodrow Wilson's concepts of national self-determination and his Fourteen Points Speech. Wilson's own intellectual, political development, and enthusiastic shaped the framework of his foreign ...

Since the Korean declaration of independence from Japanese colonial rule on March 1, 1919, Korean independence activists in the United States have lobbied for the diplomatic recognition of the Korean Provisional Government. ...

This essay explores the Chinese film industry during the 1980s and early
1990s. Using the concept of "evocative transcripts," it argues that filmmakers from this period effectively created a space for
commemoration and ...

From 1955 to 1963, the city of Pittsburgh implemented a redevelopment movement to remove the Hill District, a slum that stood between the city's two central neighborhoods. The Pittsburgh Redevelopment Movement viewed the ...

The late 19th and early 20th century was a period characterized by intense xenophobia
against Chinese immigrants that was manifested through a host of anti-Chinese laws and extralegal actions. These attitudes were created ...

In 1913, fourteen-year-old Martha Edith Almedingen looked on as the splendor of the Russian Court unfurled before her on the streets of St. Petersburg. Double-headed eagles flapped in the breeze as a succession of grand ...

Often marked by the formation of the International Red Cross in 1863, modern Humanitarianism defines itself in idealized terms as an impartial, neutral, and independent institution that aims to relieve human suffering ...

This thesis is concerned with crime and poverty during the second half of the 20th century in the United States. Particularly, it concerns the process through which young, poor, urban, racial minorities became the nexus ...

Fought intermittently between 1749 and 1762, the First Saramaka War was a primal moment in the history of Maroon relations with the Dutch colonial Surinamese state. The war was part of the violent history between Suriname's ...

Thomas Muffet, the 16th century English natural philosopher, is best known today for the nursery rhyme Little Miss Muffet. He apparently wrote it about his daughter. Some people have even suggested that the poem refers ...

After WWII, the world had to adjust to new technologies, new scientific concepts, new political realities, and new social standards. While America was economically wealthy after the war, it still had to deal with extremely ...

During the last year of the Second World War in Italy, the Allied forces assaulted the Wehrmacht's last great line of defense in Italy--the Gothic line. Un Anno in
Tossignano examines the effects of that passing war-front ...